Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). Now consider a traditional media business. They get focused solely on growth.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Flip startups are agile startups that aim to exit quickly. The idea is to build a hit that would make the founder(s) an appealing and quick talent acquisition (sometimes referred to as an acq-hire). The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. A good way to get attention is to get catchy metrics.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping. ” And then all the way to the demands question, of how many people are in that activity. As a result of that, all of those metrics go up. Same thing for engagement, as well.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

In some cases, this kind of debt can be incurred unknowingly, for example, your company might acquire a company that has accumulated significant technical debt that you don’t identify until after the acquisition. We’ll call this general category of debt Type I. Ideas for when and how to pay down product design debt?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Everyone has railed against these practices ( including us , many times), but it still seems that much of the industry is focused on short term metrics and surface level changes. With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. Image Source. ” Deeper Data Skills.

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Conversion Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Analytics 48

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Based on demand from potential investors this may get revised, upwards or downwards, multiple times. It has grown remarkably, has favorable gross margins and customer acquisition payback, and a clear path to profitability. What are customer acquisition costs like? This was clickbait at best or bad journalism at worst.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? great web customer acquisition tutorials. on demand billing and fraud management. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Common reason for failure: no metric or feedback mechanism to measure the percentage of applications that were routed to the wrong job. Common reason for failure: the absence of a metric or feedback mechanism to measure the percentage of applications that were misclassified or that advanced without meeting minimum standards.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. If you want to do churn analysis, as defined above, then you don't want GA as much as you want your back-end ERP / "Orders" database that has your customer history, and just a couple of acquisition signals (campaign and source come to mind). and finally 3.

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Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. If you don't kill 25% of your metrics each year, you are doing something wrong. Allow me to point out that only 50% of the metrics I love exist in clickstream tools - like webtrends or xiti or unica.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). It is a standard metric. It really is that stark.

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